First thing I did this week was figure out what kind of shark species I'd like to record and which ones. I'm going to start out with 20 sharks, all from 4 different species and modify as needed.
With this next part, best way I can explain my thoughts are through pictures (hence my artist background).
Let's start with Cisco, who pinged earlier today at 6:33pm from the Ocearch website and then a screenshot from Windytv website (with the sea surface temperature(SST) overlay). From there I took both images into my favorite program, Photoshop. I overlayed both, cut out the blue that Ocearch had for the ocean and wa-la! you can now see the SST where this guy pinged. I did this for both the SST an hour after Cisco pinged (22 C) and the current average for February(18 C).
I came about doing this because on
Windytv I can search a latitude and longitude, but when a shark
pings on Ocearch, there is no given latitude or longitude.
I did message Ocearch to find out if there was any way to get that information and they responded "Currently there is no way to get longitude and latitude on the Shark Tracker."
My current method I plan on is recording the current SST if available along with the average SST of each of these shark's pings. A source of error will definitely be my estimation for the area, which is why I believe the average might bring me closer results overall, but we shall see as I start collecting data.
I'll be checking in with my sharks a couple times a week and see where it leads and see if I need to check more or less often.
I will leave you all with fun bit about Ocearch, their twitter accounts. Some of the sharks have parody accounts and will tweet when they ping, fun facts, encouraging messages, along with tweeting at each other.
Fins and Grins -;()
Carly
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| Current SST |
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| Average SST |
I came about doing this because on
Windytv I can search a latitude and longitude, but when a shark
pings on Ocearch, there is no given latitude or longitude.
I did message Ocearch to find out if there was any way to get that information and they responded "Currently there is no way to get longitude and latitude on the Shark Tracker."
My current method I plan on is recording the current SST if available along with the average SST of each of these shark's pings. A source of error will definitely be my estimation for the area, which is why I believe the average might bring me closer results overall, but we shall see as I start collecting data.
I'll be checking in with my sharks a couple times a week and see where it leads and see if I need to check more or less often.
I will leave you all with fun bit about Ocearch, their twitter accounts. Some of the sharks have parody accounts and will tweet when they ping, fun facts, encouraging messages, along with tweeting at each other.
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| Cisco tweeted while I was writing this! |
Fins and Grins -;()
Carly
WOW!!! YOU are ROCKIN' this!!! Great job!!! Love your overlaying procedure. This should make for a great project!
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